Nobutaka Machimura

Nobutaka Machimura (17 October 1944-1 June 2015) was Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan from 24 December 2014 to 21 April 2015, succeeding Bunmei Ibuki and preceding Tadamori Oshima. He was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan.

Biography
Nobutaka Machimura was born in Numazu, Japan in 1944, and he attended the University of Tokyo and Wesleyan University. He was elected to his first term in the House of Representatives in December 1983, representing the 5th district of Hokkaido. Machimura served as Foreign Minister from 2004 to 2005 and in 2007, as Chief Cabinet Secretary from 2007 to 2008, and as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2014 to 2015. He died from a cerebral infarction at his home in 2015.